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A complete body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the…A compleat body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the…
A complete body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the Assembly's Shorter catechism wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are unfolded, their truth confirmed, their excellence displayed, their usefulness improved; contrary errors & vices refuted & exposed, objections answered, controversies settled, cases of conscience resolved; and a great light thereby reflected on the present age. / By the Reverend & learned Samuel Willard, M.A. late Pastor of the South Church in Boston, and vice-president of Harvard College in Cambridge, in New-England. ; Prefaced by the pastors of the same church. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]A compleat body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the Assembly's Shorter catechism wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are unfolded, their truth confirm'd, their excellence display'd, their usefulness improv'd; contrary errors & vices refuted & expos'd, objections answer'd, controversies settled, cases of conscience resolv'd; and a great light thereby reflected on the present age. / By the Reverend & learned Samuel Willard, M.A. late Pastor of the South Church in Boston, and vice-president of Harvard College in Cambridge, in New-England. ; Prefac'd by the pastors of the same church. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 42 (Question 11)
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2. IT cannot Guide it self •righ•: The Cr•• ture would lose its Way, if it were not C•n••cted by a Superior Hand, especially since Man by Sin hath fallen from his Ru•es, a•d lost his Way: Except God be Glorified by t•e Creature, it is spoiled, because that was t•e […] it was made for: That Man doth not of himself since his Fall actually Glorify God […] evident; Rom. 3.23. All have finned, and come short of the Glory of God: That the Creature•s […] this Means diverted from its proper Us•, and armed in Rebellion, is no less true, and that is the Reason of the groa•ing of it, (Rom. […] 29.) if therefore God Himself did no Rule Guide and Conduct the A••a•rt; of the World by […] own Hand, all the Design would be utterly substrate, and the Creature sink unde •ani••
2. IT cannot Guide it self •righ•: The Cr•• ture would lose its Way, if it were not C•n••cted by a Superiour Hand, especially since Man by Sin hath fa•len from his Ru•es, a•d lost his Way: Except God be Glorified by t•e Creature, it is spoiled, because that was te it was made for: That Man doth not of himself since his Fall actually Glorify God evident;